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O.C. Register: Wing Hangover Is A Mild One
by IwoCPO on 01/15/09 at 08:09 AM ET
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Count Mark Whicker of the Orange County Register as a fan of the Red Wings. Well, maybe not a fan, but a writer who’s seen his share of hockey this year and knows what kind of team he watched last night.
...the Red Wings’ heads are clear enough to go 29-7-6. That’s just a faint headache and a fairly dry mouth.
You want hangovers, check out Pittsburgh this year, Ottawa and the Ducks last year, Edmonton and Carolina the year before that. At times they all looked as hellish as John Daly at a 7:15 a.m. teeoff.
Since the lockout, no club has visited the Cup Finals one spring and won as much as a playoff series the next. Expect Detroit to end that streak, this April.
Oh, and I dug this line too.
The rest of the Wings don’t ever seem to change – i.e., there are seemingly eight of them, one for each octopus tentacle, on the ice at all times, and the puck always finds its way back to Lidstrom, who has won so many Norris Trophies (six) that the intelligentsia is straining to find other candidates, like Zdeno Chara and Shea Weber. Don’t fall for it.
Malik will be all over that, I’m sure. Of course, Whicker’s right. The Douche Canoe and his pals will try their best not to let Lidstrom win his seventh. It’s not the story they want to tell, despite the fact that he’s still a few lengths ahead of the next best defenseman out there.
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High praise from Whicker and well earned. As far as a hangover goes, they seemed to have played a bit better in every game since the end of December. Also how can Pittsburgh claim a hangover? I believe you need to win the Cup and drink out of it in order to claim a hangover.
And yea, I have hated that stupid Center Ice commercial. You would think the league would use the Cup Champs as a way to promote the game. Not the Cup losers Gary.Ass.
Thanks Gary.Ass.
Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!
Posted by Kate from Pa.-made in Detroit on 01/15/09 at 09:13 AM ET
I’ve bitched about the Cindy commercials too, but I do take some consolation in the fact that it reminds me that he was first loser last June.
That’s just a faint headache and a fairly dry mouth.
Kinda like when I got up this morning.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 01/15/09 at 09:17 AM ET
I dunno, Kate. I’ve gone home from the bar plenty of times in the past feeling like I’ve not won anything, only to wake up with a hangover. Then again, that may be more a reflection on myself than anything else.
Posted by clemshady from Greenwood, SC on 01/15/09 at 09:19 AM ET
Pass on looking for that trophy this morning, MO? Or waiting for it to warm up to a balmy 10 degrees, first?
Posted by clemshady from Greenwood, SC on 01/15/09 at 09:20 AM ET
I believe Cheli and Conks are in tonight. Bitches.
Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!
Posted by Kate from Pa.-made in Detroit on 01/15/09 at 09:22 AM ET
Pass on looking for that trophy this morning, MO? Or waiting for it to warm up to a balmy 10 degrees, first?
I do kinda have to work a couple hours a day during deer season and all… least I am supposed to be working now.
It was a lovely -5 this am, but I’ll be at it by about 2pm. One last chance man… no quitting allowed.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 01/15/09 at 11:17 AM ET
Whicker does lavish high praise on the Wings, and if the only thing he based it on is their record then I would agree—not much hangover. Personally, I’m not buying into it. I suspect a great many of the “19” aren’t either.
Sure the Wings are winning, and on occassion play with determination and resolve; [when they want/i] they can be as dominate as they were last year. However, I can’t recall many games this year where they have ass-whipped the opponent into submission. Most every game they play extemely well for 20 mins or so. I do not remember them playing 60 mins of dominate hockey against a playoff caliber team (not saying they haven’t, I just don’t recall any).
How many games do you remember when they actually put the skate to the throat and pressed down?
Posted by Jeff OKWingnut from Quest for 12 on 01/15/09 at 11:24 AM ET
I’m not saying there has been an official cure. Are you kidding? I am a Red Wings fan of the first order.
Which is to say, even when I may at times present this calm exterior, I may be, in fact, just moments away from a major coronary. Just like any Wings fan, that is part of the deal. Because when you are from Detroit that’s how you roll. Bitches.
Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!
Posted by Kate from Pa.-made in Detroit on 01/15/09 at 11:32 AM ET
@Jeff—OklahomaWingnut:
6-0 against San Jose recently.
4-0 against Chicago right after.
I think both of those count as full-effort drubbings of playoff calibre teams.
Posted by Backpacking Dad from San Jose on 01/15/09 at 03:09 PM ET
The Douche Canoe and his pals will try their best not to let Lidstrom win his seventh.
If he does get it this year, that will be his last as he is not getting eight. He could a career year and he still wouldn’t get it. There is no way in the world that the Douche Canoe and his minions will allow anybody to tie Orr.
Posted by UMFan from Colorado on 01/15/09 at 03:12 PM ET
Since the lockout, no club has visited the Cup Finals one spring and won as much as a playoff series the next.
It’s actually even worse than that. No team has won a playoff round the year after a SCF appearance since 2002 (Colorado).
(I started this post with a closing italics tag, wonder if it will work. That’s something you may want to look into, Paul. Shouldn’t all tags be forced closed at the end of a post?)
Posted by shep on 01/15/09 at 05:08 PM ET
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Thanks for those feelgood clips Chief. Nice to hear them from the land of Sasquatch. Watching last nite, everytime I saw Sasquatch, I just kept having warm feelings of him tearing his knee up trying to kill #19. Nice memories.
Posted by Jeff from Loveland, CO on 01/15/09 at 08:26 AM ET